Quasi-diabatic states and dynamical couplings from ab initio CI calculations: a new proposal
- 14 August 1985
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 18 (15) , 3073-3084
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/18/15/014
Abstract
A new proposal for determining CI quasi-diabatic states, potential energy surfaces and electronic couplings is introduced using the quasi-degenerate perturbation theory (QDPT); zeroth-order CI adiabatic states, resulting from a partial diagonalisation, are submitted to a unitary transformation in order to yield quasi-diabatic states presenting the maximum overlap with an external set of independent diabatic reference functions. An effective Hamiltonian in the quasi-diabatic representation is then obtained by applying the QDPT in the model space spanned by the quasi-diabatic states. This algorithm is exemplified by the HeNe2+1 Sigma + states for which the dynamical couplings are computed using finite difference techniques combined with first-order transition density matrices.Keywords
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